About the performance

“In the embrace of a trigger or the road to point zero” insightfully unveils the intimate world of an individual in anguish, racked with anxiety, doubt and the feeling of powerlessness. Can the perilous encounter with the trigger save him from the weight of the burden?

»In the embrace of a trigger or the road to point zero« is the first original dance project of the choreographer and dancer Jernej Bizjak, which will took place in his homeland. »Through the performance we are discussing individuum's mental and physical structure and their relationships to a world full of anxiety, the one we are living in today. We try to establish a new movement vocabulary, by means of which we can demolish high walls built around the subject no one wishes to talk about or is even unable to utter at all. The audience is faced with rough loneliness and shame of an individuum in anguish«, says the dramaturge of the performance Sara Živkovič.

Abut the author

Jernej Bizjak (b. 1987) belongs to a handful of Slovenian contemporary dancers, to whom renowned international stages basically present a homeland. In 2007 he was accepted to Rotterdam Dance Academy CODARTS (the Netherlands), which is well known for their intense and technical study program. Later on, he passed the audition for post-graduate program at Institut del Teatre Barcelona (IT Dansa). For three years he was a dancer in the international dance ensemble of Danish Dance Theatre (DDT). In his collaboration with international choreographers and dancers, he performed in dance pieces of most important contemporary choreographers (Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alexander Ekman, Rafael Bonachela, Martin Forsberg, Örjan Andersson et al.). He is now a freelancer, working in various dance projects all over the world.